I really like to see how the writers and directors estimate the future technology. There's always flying cars and unique transportation. It's interesting that their concept of an mega amount of memory file is 80GB to 320GB in 2023. He should have just taken a thumb drive with him... lol. A terabyte drive would fit in his shirt pocket. In 2023 micro SD will fit 8 terabytes.
shareJust watching this now and laughing at how different this version of the near future is to reality. I particularly like how they used a reeeaaaly slow fax machine to send the 3 pics to newark!
shareThe weird thing is that faxes are supposedly still popular in Japan. I guess that part wasn't entirely inaccurate.
sharethey are still used in business, due to "it takes two to fax" . If one stubborn cavemen wont move on with technology , others have top accommodate him and keep their fax machines switched on.
Theres loads of them in the NHS here in UK.
That makes sense. I read that in Japan many prefer fax machines because they can save the messages on paper and not have to worry about important information getting accidentally deleted.
share80ies and 90ies SF movies are best
no question about it
imagination was huge and nobody expected such vast bloom
in tech after 2000
I like the TV in the hotel. It's tiny and 4x3 CRT, even though SMPTE had announced 16x9 as the aspect ratio of the future before this film was made. They could have at least tried to make it look like something other than a standard, small television from 1995. And the remote is a big block that fires a red laser the diameter of a nickel.
shareSo here we are at the end of 2020, and this tech has not BEGUN to be here, maybe because using human couriers to carry digital Intel is, you know, stupid. Then again, it DOES star Keanu Reeves.
share“In 2023 micro SD will fit 8 terabytes.”
I doubt that we will have 8 tb cards by next year,still waiting for 2tb micro sd cards
Storage capacity is funny, and the ubiquitous flying cars in fiction won't make sense even if we could manage it. However, other aspects of the film are prescient with the control and reliance data and tech have on our society becoming ever more spider-like and inescapable. Something about the biggest plight in 2021 being a virus seems to work, too...
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